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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You selectively picked an activity that American soldiers would do everywhere (peeing) over something they did only in Afghanistan (guarding opium fields) only because it would support your argument.

nope, just an example. you’re not very good at this

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Terrible argument. Textbook case of:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He actually never said he needed that to sleep at night. Textbook case of a strawman argument. You can do better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I wasn’t making an argument, just a dismissal

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

just a dismissal

Sorry, that would be an Appeal to the stone fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone